National Blog - page: 313
"Beware Washington's benevolence"
Igor Birman, who was a Soviet refugee at age 13 and now serves as Chief of Staff for Rep. Tom McClintock, has a powerful piece in The Washington Times today that draws upon his experiences in Soviet Russia to warn Americans about the [...]
Liberty NewsWire - December 28, 2011
The conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress’s Stop Online Piracy Act, with right-leaning bloggers arguing their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill passes. - PoliticoSOPA Could [...]
Afghanistan as the Hotel California
Apparently the Obama administration views Afghanistan as a bit like the Eagles' famed Hotel California. We can check out but never leave.Reported the New York Times:The senior American commander in Afghanistan suggested Tuesday that [...]
UPDATE: House Judiciary, SOPA
Tomorrow morning, the House Judiciary Committee plan to continue their markup of H.R. 3261, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" or SOPA.SOPA threatens the very existence of the internet we know today. If it passed, not only would it be [...]
Liberty NewsWire: December 19, 2011
CBS News correspondent Celia Hatton reports news of Kim's death was met with a flood of televised emotion in North Korea, as state TV showed orderly columns of state officials weeping dramatically, and ordinary North Koreans beside themselves [...]
Liberty NewsWire - December 29, 2011
America's central bank, the Federal Reserve, is engaged in a bailout of European banks. Surprisingly, its operation is largely unnoticed here. - CATOFed Secretly Bailing out Europe - CATO InstituteTSA Funding Increases in 2012 - [...]
Keeping Us Safe?
In the latest instance of someone completely exposing the TSA's costly, ineffective, and invasive screening procedures for what it is, security theater, a writer from Vanity Fair goes through a TSA checkpoint at Reagan National [...]
Liberty NewsWire - December 20, 2011
The Transportation Security Administration isn't just in airports anymore. TSA teams are increasingly conducting searches and screenings at train stations, subways, ferry terminals and other mass transit locations around the country. - Los [...]
The Death of Privacy
My wife recently applied for a job on line with a major US corporation. Within minutes, she received an email asking her to confirm that she was associated with another individual who works for the company, a close friend of our [...]
Vladimir Putin and the Phenomenon of the Broken Clock
It is said that even a broken clock is right twice a day, and so it is with Russia's Vladimir Putin. He's no squishy believer in individual liberty, but he has accurately assessed American foreign policy. Reported [...]